Same-sex romances to be available on Star Wars: The Old Republic; Religious Right wanks

Apparently the whole Religious Right versus same sex-romance-in-Star Wars-video-games dogfight isn't over yet.

Quick rewind: Recently, BioWare, the makers of the massively popular MMO video game Star Wars: The Old Republic, decided that one of your role playing options should be a same sex romance. Diverse, the universe is, hm?

Oh lawd, can you imagine the freak-out they'd have at DA2, where a gay chara hits on you first? They'd have the vapors.

Also, I only started playing Bioware games because of the relationship options and the amazing reaction one of the DA2 writers had to a homophobe who didn't want all that icky gay in his games. I went out and bought both Dragon Age games the next weeken to support that 'shove your privilege' attitude.

I agree with the Indoctrination theory, so I actually think it was a pretty good ending (caveat: I haven't actually played it myself), and think they overestimated their audience. I also kind of approve of creators occasionally trolling their own fanbase (thus my love for Hideo Kojima), but I will admit, the possibility of a 'real' ending they had planned before and will release as DLC you have to PAY for pisses me off and smacks of EA.

Which they bashed her for too, saying she should go back to writing 'fanfic'. While I my headtilt at her writing of Anders (Which I'm chalking up to editorial mandate) She also fleshed out the Dwarves and wrote Captain Motherfucking Cullen, which makes her cool beans in my book.

The funny thing is that so many of the things people were kvetching about with Anders were from Gaider himself so, bitter lols. Apparently, originally she was a fanfic writer, but as someone else pointed out: writing in a media like video games uses the exact same skills as fanfiction, which was cool to think about. I'd argue Cullen as a pinnacle of writing but I find him creeeeeepy. The Dwarves are fucking amazing though. I think she wrote most of the Brosca origin.